LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mary II
DRIFTING CABIN CRUISER TAKEN IN TOW Humber, Yorkshire. At six o'clock on the evening of the 14th June, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that the police had reported a cabin cruiser adrift in the river Humber, but...
Sea Clown
TOW FOR MOTOR WSSEL WITH FIVE ABOARD Hastings, Sussex. At 3.57 p.m. on Sunday the 21st of July, 1963, the coastguard informed the wife of the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Sea Clown of Rye had broken down off Pett Level. There was...
Endeavour, Progress, Easter Morn, Prosperity, Venus, Gallilee, Provider
FEB. 18TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
During the morning a fresh N.W. wind was blowing, with a very rough sea. It was breaking heavily from the Pier Ends to the Rock Buoy, and anxiety was felt for the safety of nine of the local...
Gloire a St. Therese
ON BOARD FRENCH TRAWLER 10.32 p.m. on i5th June, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the French trawler Gloire a St.
Therese of Boulogne had on board an injured man needing hospital treatment, and owing to...
Livanita (1)
SECOND SERVICE TO NORWEGIAN MOTOR VESSEL Penlee, Cornwall. At 8.15 on the morning of the 27th February, 1963, the port medical officer telephoned to say that the motor vessel Livanita of Grimstad, which had a sick man on board, was...
None (4)
Dover, Kent. At 11.40 on the morning of the 29th of November, 1958, the coastguard at Sandgate reported that two boys were cut off by the tide near St. Margarets. At 11.50 the life-boat Southern Africa put out in a moderate sea, towing a...
Igonda
Plymouth, South Devon.—At 7.52 on the morning of the 29th of July, 1956, the Rame Head coastguard reported that a yacht was showing distress sig- nals near Penlee Point. The life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse put out at 8.15. There was...
Axel
COURTOWN.—It having been reported that a barque was flying signals of distress, the Life-boat Three Sisters put off at 8 A.M. on the 30th September, in strong N.E. breeze and a moderate sea.
On reaching the vessel, which...
Confiance
The motor Life-boat, James Stevens No. 14, was launched at 2.18 P.M. on the 6th Decem- ber to the assistance of a ketch which was reported in distress off Walton-on- the-Naze. When she arrived alongside she found the vessel was the Dutch...
Pioneer
Flamborough, Yorkshire.—At 1.30 in the afternoon of the 5th of July, 1950, the f.shtng coble Pioneer, with a crew of three, was reported missing. Later on she was seen by the coxswain about three miles north of the life-boat station,...